/r/bladerunner
A subreddit dedicated to Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. The 1982 dystopian science fiction action film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young - and it’s sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve.
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Does anyone know where I can find or download a copy? I have the 2007 five-disc suitcase set, but those discs were poorly pressed and became unplayable in a few years that was made in that era from Warner.
I’m Going to London today for the first time and was wondering if anyone know if are there any Blade Runner 2049 screening?
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I understand most people seem to agree that the unicorn dream sequence is Scott's wink wink nudge nudge to his own conviction of Deckard being a Replicant due to the implications of Gaff leaving an origami unicorn at his door in the end, but surely I can't be the only one who assumed right from the start that "unicorn" usually signifies something special, unique, one-of-a-kind, with him dreaming of a unicorn signifying Deckard's inner conflict towards falling in love with that one unique Replicant, when he spent his whole life killing them.
I’m doing a video project for school and need the music for both of the baseline tests in blade runner 2049. i’m struggling to find them, would anyone know what the songs are called and the time stamps? thanks for anyone help given
Just saw a sizzle reel of upcoming Disney+ shows. The image attached is from Andor season two, but wow if it’s not a dead ringer for a Blade Runner looking character.
My brother is a huge audiophile and Blade Runner fan. I'd like to get him the OSTs in vinyl as gifts (secret santa). I know next to nothing about the movies and I'm not an audiophile and have used a record player twice in my life. Are the albums available on https://atthemoviesshop.com/products/blade-runner the right thing to get, quality-wise? He really likes the "analog technology" spirit of the first movie
After seeing this post on the subreddit and having an amazing stroke of luck, I was able to get my hands on a VHS of "Erotic Blade Runner" and have made it available online in all of its "glory" for the first time.
You can find it on the Internet Archive here. If anyone happens to know Korean, I want to find all the information on this release possible and potentially even add English subtitles so please reach out!
We might not get replicants but at least there are reddit bots. Posted in Twin Peaks and got some traction with what I thought was just a fairly nonpolitical post…but I guess I didn’t think they would enter the Black Lodge. I was wrong. But I don’t know if they come here. I would be like….ohhh we got a Batty.
What kind of concepts would you like to see in this series? I'm really interested in these directions:
Memory transfer. We know the memories can be copied. By 2099, memory storage and implantation is probably common place. Do people transplant the memories of cool trips and wild sexual experiences into their own mind?
Who rules society? Have replicants become the dominant species by 2099? If so, have they subjugated humanity?
Interspecies mating. We now know this is possible, so has it become common place? Is the offspring of a replicant and human considered human? Are they shunned by both?
Like yeah I know about the theory, but I really don't understand why it's such an important talking point. The movie is layered and deep enough already. Deckard gets his butt handed to him any time he takes anyone on in a fight without his fancy gun, so he really doesn't show any more impressive feats than a normal human.
With other famous movie theories, I can kinda see the implications and why they would change everything. But here, I don't really see what is the point of it all. Seems like it changes nothing. I'd say it even takes away from that final scene with Roy.
Not to mention that the sequel has Ford be all old and helpless, so while I look at these two projects as their own things, I do feel like absolutely not saying anything about it, and having older Ford appear, kinda says that he wasn't a replicant in 2049. Unless we are supposed to take from it that not only was Deckard built as a much weaker replicant, but he also had no life span issue put into him. Which again, isn't said in the text, so idk.
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The first time I watched Blade Runner it was the Director’s Cut on VHS. Yesterday, almost 30 years later, I finally saw it on the big screen, at the cinema, as it was intended. Never thought I would get the chance in my lifetime still but there you go.
I was watching blade runner yet again when I began to have questions about the bird that Roy was holding. Opinions were varied among the people I was talking with, some said dove, some said pigeon. So I went looking to see what bird it looks like and it looks the most like a mourning dove. That suddenly made Roy's holding the dove and letting it go make sense to me symbolically.
EDIT: looking over the comments, I want to clear up some confusion.
First, pigeons (also known as rock doves)and doves are both members of the Columbidae bird family and share many similar characteristics, so the main difference between them is linguistic.
Second, the mourning dove is also a dove.
Third, the dove in the movie is pure white with a curved yellow beak. And I went looking to see which dove fits that description. I saw a pic that had a white feathers and yellow beak. Whoever posted that picture listed it as a mourning dove. However now I'm not sure if it really could be. Apparently doves come in so many different colors
Cool feature in Meta AI once you upload an image of yourself you can prompt "imagine me..." Kinda fun.
I think that top to bottom BR2049 is a masterpiece, but for me at least Roger Deakins' genius has sort of overshadowed how truly incredible nearly all the acting performances are. Even actors that only spend 10 minutes on screen are electric (Bautista, Lennie James, Carla Juri most notably imo). I don't think there are any bad performances in this movie, but what do you think are the best? For me
Jared Leto, maybe he's a creep IRL but he completely creates Wallace. It's a big swing but it lands
Sylvia Hoeks. Luv is terrifying and when K kills her it feels like I'm watching true violence. It makes me so uncomfortable
Ryan Gosling. K is one of the best sci fi protagonists of all time.
I'd even throw Carla Juri in there. "Someone lived this". Fucking a
So what say you?